[LEAPSECS] the leap second in the media

[Tony Finch]

On Mon, 5 Jan 2009, Magnus Danielson wrote:

>

> You could of course to some degree steer the clock on a machine by

> changing the computing load on it, as the tempco of most systems crystal

> is pretty bad. It would kinda work except when it is out of controlrange.


Alternatively you can use clock skew to infer computing load:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sjm217/papers/#pub-ccs06hotornot

Tony.
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